Tampa, Fla. (October 27, 2017) – Engineering education is chronically challenged by dynamics in information technology, work environments, and the public’s perception of the engineer’s role in society. Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands has risen to this challenge, redesigning its entire undergraduate program in an effort to meet the demands of the 21st century engineering profession.

Tampa, Fla. (July 7, 2017) – The next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs are being formed at U.S. universities. Exactly what are these universities doing to ensure that these students and faculty will be successful in their innovation and entrepreneurship endeavors? As it turns out, they’re doing a lot.

Tampa, Fla. (Mar. 10, 2017) – The new issue of Technology and Innovation, Journal of the National Academy of Inventors® (18:4) (Full Text) highlights papers from the Fifth Annual Conference of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI): “Building on the Foundations of Innovation.” The NAI Annual Conference, held last year on April 14 and 15, 2016, in Washington, DC, provides an annual forum for celebrating academic invention and inventors, recognizing and encouraging invention, and enhancing the visibility of university and non-profit research. This issue contains a special conference section and a general section.

Tampa, Fla. (Mar. 10, 2017) – When universities engage in technology transfer, the process of commercializing the innovations and inventions of academic faculty members, “seed capital” to fund start-up companies often comes from entrepreneurs and venture capitalists from outside of the university system. These necessary funds have far-reaching effects and benefits; however, additional benefits, both for the community and the institution, can be realized when the seed capital comes from the innovation and invention-founding academic institutions. “University Seed Capital Programs: Benefits Beyond the Loan,” a paper outlining these benefits, has been published in the current issue of Technology and Innovation, Journal of the National Academy of Inventors® (Full Text).

Tampa, Fla. (Mar. 10, 2017) – What innovation is and how it can be cultivated are two of the compelling questions raised in a paper exploring the potential for fostering innovation in students in the new issue of Technology and Innovation, Journal of the National Academy of Inventors® (Full Text)

Tampa, Fla. (Mar. 10, 2017) – What innovation is and how it can be cultivated are two of the compelling questions raised in a paper exploring the potential for fostering innovation in students in the new issue of Technology and Innovation, Journal of the National Academy of Inventors® (Full Text)

TAMPA, Fla. (Oct. 6, 2016) – The current special topic issue of Technology and Innovation, Journal of the National Academy of Inventors (18:2-3), titled “Outcomes and Advances in Assistive Technologies for Rehabilitation,” contains peer-reviewed articles covering a broad range of research related to assistive technologies, including systematic reviews, clinical research, outcome measures, and innovative techniques and interventions. In addition, this issue features a USPTO commentary on the Cancer Moonshot and the NAI Fellow Profile featuring Dr. Robert S. Langer.

TAMPA, Fla. (Oct. 6, 2016) – Patients with serious lower leg trauma have two main care options: limb preservation or transtibial amputation (TTA) with the subsequent use of a prosthesis, or artificial limb. This study, “Economic Evaluations of Interventions for Transtibial Amputations,” takes on the task of defining the largely unknown economic aspects of TTA, including the cost-effectiveness of prosthesis use within three topical areas: care models, prosthetic treatment, and prosthetic sockets.

TAMPA, Fla. (May 24, 2016) – The effort to find ways to detect and diagnose preclinical Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has taken a big step forward with the use of positron emission tomography (PET), a “nuclear medicine” for imaging processes in the body, when PET is used with a special ‘tracer’ that binds to the amyloid plaques in the brain that are a characteristic cause of AD. Read more…

Tampa, Fla. (Mar. 8, 2016) – The current issue of Technology and Innovation, Journal of the National Academy of Inventors has a special section devoted to presentations from the Fourth Annual Conference of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) held March 19-20, 2015, at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. Read more…

Tampa, Fla. (Mar. 8, 2016) – Building on the results of a survey circulated to U.S. and Canadian universities to understand current approaches for defining technology transfer activities and recognizing them as part of faculty performance assessments, a task force of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) has made recommendations for just how universities might go about taking into account the value of technology transfer and concomitant social benefits as part of tenure and promotion considerations. Read more…

RUSTON, La. (Feb. 17, 2016) – Researchers from Louisiana Tech University have published a study on the prevalence and impacts of “serial inventors” – scientist and engineers within university research communities who are particularly inventive and produce patents at a high level. The article titled, “Prevalence of Serial Inventors in Academia” has been published in a recent issue of “Technology and Innovation”, a journal of the National Academy of Inventor (NAI.). Read more…

TAMPA, Fla. (Aug. 25, 2015) – Fresh water–connecting and sustaining all aspects of life on Earth, including food and energy–is in great danger. Moreover, scientists are worried not only about fresh water; they worry that we are not worried enough about fresh water, especially in light of growing concern over recent events, such as the prolonged California drought. Read more…

TAMPA, Fla. (Dec. 19, 2014) – The current special issue of Technology and Innovation, is devoted to presentations from the Third Annual Conference of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), which was held Mar. 6-7, 2014, at the headquarters of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in Alexandria, Va. Read more…

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Important Updates

As of January 1, 2016, the National Academy of Inventors is the owner and publisher of the journal. The journal will serve a key role in the NAI’s continuing mission to support and honor academic invention and inventors. Previous volumes of T&I published with Cognizant Communications can be accessed through the Previous Volumes link on the T&I homepage or through Cognizant Communication Corporation at https://www.cognizantcommunication.com/journal-titles/technology-a-innovation.

Beginning with Volume 18, Issue 1, all of the journal’s content will be full open access. We look forward to the increased visibility that this will provide for our authors.